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Liscio, E. (author)Human values are the abstract motivations that drive our opinions and actions. AI agents ought to align their behavior with our value preferences (the relative importance we ascribe to different values) to co-exist with us in our society. However, value preferences differ across individuals and are dependent on context. To reflect diversity in...doctoral thesis 2024
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Huang, H. (author)As far as a historic city is concerned, a city is a dynamic complex which consists of many different interrelated and interactive elements. It is unreasonable to assess urban heritage by using a single value category. The evaluation of urban heritage values needs to develop a theoretical framework to represent the relationships between different...doctoral thesis 2024
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Ale Ebrahim Dehkordi, Molood (author)In society, institutions are the foundation that governs human behaviour through rules, norms, and regulations. The actions and interactions of individuals are shaped by these institutions, forming a cyclic system with numerous parameters and factors. Altering any of these factors, triggers the entire system to transition into a new state that...doctoral thesis 2024
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Gründemann, Gaby J. (author)Improved understanding of historical precipitation extremes is important to better explain their behavior, predict future occurrences, and inform planning and engineering design. The intensity, seasonality, and timing of these extremes have far-reaching consequences, and require a comprehensive analysis of both historical trends and projected...doctoral thesis 2023
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Arush, I. (author)Flight test engineering is an interdisciplinary science that gathers flight-test data and develops methods with the objective of evaluating an aircraft or an airborne system in its operational flight environment. The need for flight testing emanates as a necessary effort that complements ground-based verification activities such as wind-tunnel...doctoral thesis 2023
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Foroughi, M. (author)This PhD thesis explores the evolving field of heritage planning, focusing on the cultural significance of heritage properties. It advocates for a value-based approach that recognizes the diverse perspectives of stakeholders, including experts, policymakers, and users. While participatory heritage aims to foster consensus-building, tensions may...doctoral thesis 2023
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Li, X. (author)This thesis contributes to the effective and efficient application of unsteady adjoint methods to Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) for Large Eddy Simulation (LES). Three aspects, i.e., subgrid-scale model error, storage cost of high-dimensional data, and stability of the adjoint problem for turbulent flows, were studied to make adjoint-based mesh...doctoral thesis 2023
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Hernández, J.I. (author)Since its origins in the 1970s, choice modelling has become an important field of study in diverse areas, including transportation, health economics, environmental economics and marketing. Choice modellers have developed several methods to collect and model individual choices. Researchers and policymakers use such methods to understand...doctoral thesis 2023
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Azcarate Aguerre, J.F. (author)Accelerating strategic investment in an energy- and material resource-efficient built environment<br/><br/>The de-carbonisation of the built environment hinges on the use of clean, renewable energy and the conservation of materials and components within circular reprocessing loops. The Façades-as-a-Service research concept aims to accelerate the...doctoral thesis 2023
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Dijkstra, A. (author)This thesis proposes the of integrating safety, economics, and passenger experience and draws on the author's research and experience in aviation to develop a more comprehensive approach to airline business management. The research closes the gap between business and Safety Management Systems in airlines by introducing two novel and...doctoral thesis 2023
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Bouter, P.A. (author)In recent years, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become prevalent in a large number of societally relevant, real-world problems, e.g., in the domains of engineering and health care. The field of Evolutionary Computation (EC) can be considered to be a sub-field of AI, concerning optimization using Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), which...doctoral thesis 2023
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van Onselen, L. (author)Junior designers may experience struggles with collaborative partners (e.g clients, managers, and stakeholders) who may prioritise values differently and which may yield frustration, conflict, and stress. Particularly, junior designers may find coping with value-based conflicts challenging as support is lacking. Senior designers can develop...doctoral thesis 2022
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Banerjee, I. (author)In a dynamic or disruptive situation, such as disasters, a fully mobile and decentralized infrastructure-less network seems to be a viable option for communication. Citizens are confronted with challenges such as complicated deployment of these networks, resource-constrained mobile phones and mobility. This requires communication networks to...doctoral thesis 2022
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Li, S. (author)In response to the pressing demand for elderly care, care robots, the robots used by care receivers and/or caregivers for care purposes in various settings, such as hospitals, nursing homes, and personal residences were introduced and have been gaining traction as a technological solution to improve care quality and to enhance the value of...doctoral thesis 2022
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Velthoen, J.J. (author)In this thesis we develop several statistical methods to estimate high conditional quantiles to use for statistical post-processing of weather forecasts. We propose methodologies that combine theory from extreme value statistics and machine learning algorithms in order to estimate high conditional quantiles in large covariate spaces. In...doctoral thesis 2022
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Cheng, D. (author)This dissertation collects three scientific contributions, already published in international peer-reviewed journals, plus some extra considerations and work-in-progress. First, we present a model based on reinforced urn processes, which conjugates to the right-censored recovery process, and empirically apply it to the time series of recovery...doctoral thesis 2022
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Maffei, C. (author)Forest fires are a major ecosystem disturbance at global scale, put pressure on agencies in charge of citizens and infrastructure security and cause unvaluable human losses. Fires are controlled by multiple static and dynamic drivers related to topography, land cover, climate, weather, and anthropic activity. Among these, weather is an active...doctoral thesis 2022
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Sui, Congbiao (author)The shipping industry, which remains the backbone of international merchandise trade, is striving to reduce its operational cost and more importantly its environment impact. New ships need meet the EEDI (Energy Efficiency Design Index) requirements of IMO (International Maritime Organization). However, the current EEDI is not able to accurately...doctoral thesis 2021
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Mercuur, R.A. (author)Our routines play an important role in a wide range of social challenges such as climate change, disease outbreaks and coordinating the staff and patients of a hospital. Studying these systems via agent-based simulations (ABS) enables researchers to gain insight into complex aspects of these challenges such as human interaction, learning,...doctoral thesis 2021